Visual design is one of the most powerful tools marketers have for connecting with their audiences on a human level, engaging the senses, and driving action. Humans are inherently visual learners. Smart marketers appeal to their audiences with a variety of visual content including:

Images and pictures. Articles with images get 94% more views than those without.

3) Make it scannable. Create content that is easily digestible at a glance. For longer content, use different text treatments and graphic elements to highlight key points. Your audience can scan first, and then go in for a deeper dive.

4) Keep ‘em guessing. Use design to evoke your audience’s curiosity. Drive them down a path towards deeper understanding of your company, product or services, and how you can help them solve their problem or challenge.

5) Awaken the senses. Design to appeal to your audience’s senses. Use graphics and photos that evoke a visceral response. Consider the difference between a static product architecture image compared with a dynamic slide that incrementally builds an image out of individual components.

In the oversaturated landscape of B2B marketing, dry and emotionless just won’t break through the noise. Marketers need human connections with their audiences. In order to build human connections, we must appeal not only to audiences’ practical needs, but also to their human sensibilities. Strong visual content makes an instant impact, holds the audience’s attention, and elicits a response.